Following the success of one of the world’s most important music awards – the OPUS KLASSIK, which in 2022 honored Goldberg Baroque Ensemble in the category Best Premiere Recording of the Year for their album featuring Johann Daniel Pucklitz’s Oratorio Secondo, the rediscovery of this composer’s music through that work is reaching ever wider circles and arousing extraordinary enthusiasm. The music contained in his Oratorio, as appreciated and noted by music lovers and critics alike, escapes standard Baroque conventions; it is remarkably original and intriguing.

A Baroque Ravel from Gdańsk

(crescendo-magazine.be / Belgium-France)

Pure gold from Gdańsk has been reconstructed

(pizzicato.lu / Luxembourg)

Pucklitz’s sense of drama and sonic effect is fascinating

(gramola.at, Austria)

In every aspect a significant discovery, enriching the mosaic of eighteenth-century music in the most colorful way.

(Klassikheute.de / Germany)

…Without a doubt… it is very interesting for many reasons, which I tried to summarize above. However, the most important fact is that it is simply very good music…

(musica-dei-donum.org / Netherlands)

…Although at first I thought it was just another example of local musical archaeology, the work turned out to be completely universal… The event proved successful on at least a European level. And I have never before left a concert in such a state of exaltation after two hours of reflections on death…

(Ruch Muzyczny, review of a concert featuring Pucklitz’s music)

Sixty works by Pucklitz – a Gdańsk composer from the era of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, preserved in the collections of the Gdańsk Library of the Polish Academy of Sciences – are therefore waiting to be rediscovered, transcribed, studied, edited, recorded, and restored to the world’s Baroque repertoire. The potential of this music to enter the pantheon is immense. It is high time we presented it to the world, especially as interest in the composer continues to grow.